When two and two were only four
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I lived in a small communal apartment.
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I worked with a pot, and a nightlight shone for me,
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But I was a fool and didn't pay for the light.
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I gnawed the same books with a seagull instead of drying,
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I dreamed of shooting myself in front of everyone from the Tsar Cannon,
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I broke my head in the form of a pillow.
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Oh, tops-roots! |
From pot to crown
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The usual cross fool.
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“Your move,” the frogs called from the swamps.
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I backed away like a cancer.
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I drank the developer, I drank the fixer,
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Turned the apartment into a sobering-up station in the morning,
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But he did not drown either in a glass or a goblet.
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Like an awl in a bag - two chuckles, three chuckles -
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Stuffed fool, I mixed in my pipe
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And at once turned into an eagle from tails.
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And a soul with a smell, like a body in a cart,
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I rolled and ruled nuts with gold,
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But Lyubka liked something.
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Flour through flour poets rhyme.
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She showed where crayfish hibernate.
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Although it sometimes came to a fight -
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I love Lyubka! |
And the details are lies.
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She even believed it herself.
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We lived at that time in a cholera hut
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Winter was considered cholera.
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And Verka the dressmaker took measurements from Lyubka - |
I wanted to sew a fur coat for her for the winter.
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But suddenly it turned out that the fur coat was for Verka.
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I offered her to live with us.
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And she knew too much about cards -
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This very Vera went crazy.
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Winter woke up and drove away cholera.
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The list of nights became shorter.
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Yes, Vera was both simple and understandable,
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And white spots were covered with snow,
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I took propaganda at the root of the visual
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And wax from thousands of candles.
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And we used the awl in the sack for soap.
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Our hut was flooded with holy water.
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We have already soaped ourselves, but holy water
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Per meter of holy and hard ice.
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And Vera cut a blanket out of a fur coat.
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There was a hole in it - it just shone.
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Wrapped up in a hole, lay down on the bed
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And the three of them began to spend the winter like crayfish.
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But having sensed the water - yes, in a dream or in the spirit -
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Nadyukha appeared in a sailor's vest.
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I've been a sailor with her for a long time,
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Mattressed twice, but chickened out and left.
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Not so young, but not at all old,
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She broke the parquet of blue ice.
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Nadyuha went to say goodbye forever,
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Yes, it has remained with us forever.
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We spent the winter actively and together.
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And the main thing - it was not boring for us. |
And whoever is rich in something, everyone was happy about that.
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But still, they just squealed,
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When next to the rhythms of the secular stage
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I myself finally took the guitar in claws.
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My ravine on the mountain did not whistle like a whistle.
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I gave everything from what was given.
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And the head brain carved on the bark:
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Hope plus Vera plus Sasha plus Lyuba
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Plus Aunt Seryozha plus Uncle Natasha…
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In short, it doesn't matter.
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I sang this in a dark cold barrack
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And it turned into an ordinary palace.
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So this is what crayfish do in the spring!
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And then it turned out that I am a cancer father.
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I sit in my body, as if in a volcano.
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Pour me light from the hole in the window!
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Three graces, like three sides in a glass.
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Three sides in a glass, three different mothers,
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three different mothers, and one daughter.
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But there is no effect without special causes.
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Moreover, it seems not a daughter, but a son.
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Or maybe not a son, or maybe a brother,
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Sister or mother or I myself am a father,
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Or maybe the entire May Day parade!
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Or maybe our whole city - Leningrad! ..
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It's getting light. |
I guess vice versa.
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Or maybe our entire Soviet people.
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Or maybe our whole country is in the cradle! |